Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-29 | Page 7 | Lincoln's Speeches and Writings

SPEECHES AND iND i WRITING WHITINGS B great speeches arc aio short but how h lit h In oppression expression eo how peeked packed I with will h n Take T for example thin ono Inti delivered to his hili D on tho time ova ovo of his hla departure for tor Washington Like Lillo tho Iho second Inaugural or 01 the tho nd ad drut dl t s lit nt it Gettysburg It contains no superfluous word wort Kory ono one tits Its Into place an as perfectly as 00 the tho carpenters braces und and timbers Into tho time completed building I As a 11 writer writ or Mr Lincoln wan most painstaking l Ho lie sought bought id r always uyi tho rho shortest and bout best word Ho hoe Dew that tho the nod nud shortest word noid usually la le tho the bust bast b st The Tho roil real HO so Bret of ot his hla hl greatness us a n and andt v t writer however lay deeper It was tho the greatness of Ids hla soul which Shone through his Ilia words that charmed and ami still charms thu the world J A Edgerton